This is the book that lit the writing fire inside me while attending Jefferson Junior High.
Clarke's tale - barely 200 pages long, a great lesson on conservation of words - details humankind’s first encounter with an alien vessel, code-named Rama. It’s massive, and barreling through our solar system. An Earth crew barely has time to rendezvous, get inside, and explore, before Rama rockets around the sun and disappears forever.
Far from a dead ship, it mysteriously comes alive, creating more questions than answers, about the aliens and about ourselves.
I still credit Rama with the best final sentence ever.
Far from a dead ship, it mysteriously comes alive, creating more questions than answers, about the aliens and about ourselves.
I still credit Rama with the best final sentence ever.
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